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>There is now a known problem in the GtkEntry widget. In
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>  /* The algorithms here will work as long as, the text size (a
   * multiple of 2), fits into a guint16 but we specify a shorter
   * maximum length so that if the user pastes a very long text, there
   * is not a long hang from the slow X_LOCALE functions.  */

  if (entry-&#62;text_max_length == 0)
    max_length = 2047;
  else
    max_length = MIN (2047, entry-&#62;text_max_length);</PRE
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